A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

We report a virtually complete plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic (∼183 Ma)3 Posidonia Shale of Germany that preserves skin ...

You might think that after 200 million years, we would have learned all we're ever going to know about plesiosaurs. Such is ...

Plesiosaur: A group of marine reptiles characterized by their long necks and small heads or large heads with short necks, existing from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Phylogenetics ...

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

The mix of features offers new clues to how plesiosaurs navigated prehistoric oceans. The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of plesiosaur had scales on its flippers similar to modern sea turtle species.

The tissues of the MH7 fossil were so precisely preserved that researchers could study individual skin cells. In some samples ...

Between 66 million and 215 million years ago, long-necked reptiles called plesiosaurs inhabited the world’s oceans. By ...

July 27, 2022 — Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert ...